CN Reaches Tentative Labour Agreement with Dispatchers' Union in Canada.Business Editors MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2004 CN (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. ) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CNR) announced today it has reached a tentative collective agreement with the union representing approximately 200 of its Canada-based train dispatchers. Details of the new three-year labour contract - replacing one that expired Dec. 31, 2003 - are being withheld pending agreement ratification by members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference/Rail Canada Traffic Controllers in Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton. CN is in active negotiations with five other unions in Canada whose contracts also expired at the end of last year. Those unions represent approximately 8,300 employees. Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. |
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